4:57
the street light begins to fight
December's dead light
—Kelley Jean White
About the author: email: KelleyWhiteMD at Yahoo.com
I was born and raised in New Hampshire, have degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, and have been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for the past twenty years. In the past several years I have had 850 poems accepted or published by 200 journals. My book, The Patient Presents, was published by The People's Press in Baltimore and a chapbook, "I am going to walk toward the sanctuary," was published by Nepenthe Books/Via Dolorosa Press.
algebra
shaking his head
for the right angle
squinting
at the painting
not a clue
thin ice across the puddle
December light
holiday twilight
twinkling of starry eyes ...
7:01
winter always kills
my face and ears flushed red
waiting for solstice